Invisible

About the film:

A journey from invisibility to visibility. Journalist and podcast creator/narrator, Marianna Kakaounaki, spent several months with a Turkish family who fled to Greece after the attempted coup at their home country in 2016 an now they try to rebuild their lives and overcome an unspeakable tragedy that changed them forever.

After the screening there will be a conversation between filmmaker Marianna Kakaounaki and Jørgen Lorentzen, where they will discuss democracy in Turkey, human rights violations, persecutions and forced displacement.

The film will be screened with English subtitles and the conversation will be in English.

Jørgen Lorentzen is a Norwegian literary scholar and researcher. He has worked as a journalist and a researcher at the Center for Gender Research from 2003 to 2012. He is now the director of Stiftelsen Hedda and producer at Integral film, which he owns and runs together with his wife, the director Nefise Özkal Lorentzen. In 2019 they made the film about the coup attempt in Turkey: The Gift from God.

Marianna Kakaounaki studied Psychology and is now an award winning journalist for Greek print and tv. She has reported for the Wall Street Journal, is regularly serving as a field producer for CBS News and has been a part-time employee of the Olympic Broadcasting Services working as their features reporter for the last 9 years. In 2019 she was nominated and selected by the US State Department to be an IVLP “Edward R. Murrow Program” participant. During her time off from work, she has participated in documentary workshops, film-making courses and investigative seminars in Greece and abroad. She just released her first feature film “INVISIBLE” about the Turkish persecuted community.